A badly deteriorating Brunton Park, thus think the unthinkable

[Neil_McDonalds_rod]

The club is being run very parsimoniously because there is no choice. The transfer fee income is needed in order to mitigate the still yearly trading losses of £500,000. Maintaining a badly deteriorating Brunton Park is a substantial part of those losses. Eventually something has to give.

What about sharing Workington's soon to be built Community Stadium? This would be a challenge because it may be that Rugby League and Football are already slotted in to be played there. But there are such things as Saturdays and Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays etc.

Clearly this amounts to sacrilage but what ideas are there for when Brunton Park has almost bankrupted the club and yet still needs a lot more to be spent on it? There will not be a Carlisle Community Project which includes a stadium.

[Piglet_Phoenix]

You have to pay yearly maintenance costs on your stadium wherever you play (if you own it).

If you don't own it then you have to pay rent, so the same thing.

It's a completely invalid assumption to start an argument with "we have to pay x amount to maintain our ground every year". It's called "part of being a football club". If we can't afford to exist as a football club we shouldn't even bother.

[cayambe]

Share with Workington - never.

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

Share with Workington - never.

Of course that is the emotional response to be expected. But when the Workington project is finished it could still be several years before Carlisle United have access to something else. Given a choice of sharing with Workington for several years or the club being killed by the costs of Brunton Park deterioration the sensible choice is clear.

[cayambe]

Of course that is the emotional response to be expected. But when the Workington project is finished it could still be several years before Carlisle United have access to something else. Given a choice of sharing with Workington for several years or the club being killed by the costs of Brunton Park deterioration the sensible choice is clear.

Fans would not contemplate moving north of the river, south of currock, east of the M6 or west of Denton Holme. Mind it would put the final nail in the CUFC coffin

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

Fans would not contemplate moving north of the river, south of currock, east of the M6 or west of Denton Holme. Mind it would put the final nail in the CUFC coffin

That is mere conjecture, supposition.

Carlisle United staying at a dying Brunton Park is now resulting in a dying Carlisle United. The club has to move to survive.

The embarrassment of the club being away from Carlisle would inevitably make some powerful people want to bring it back, resulting in a proper resolution of the problem.

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

It is indeed true that part of being a football club is to maintain the ground. But the cost of maintaining the already badly deteriorated Brunton Park in comparison to the maintaining of the average League Two ground is absolutely enormous each year and increases by larger amounts each year. There is annually much more to be done than would be considered normal at a typical League Two ground.

Brunton Park is dying and maintaining it is a total waste of a lot of money.

Minds need to be applied to the need to leave Brunton Park at the earliest opportunity. There are possible solutions if excessive egoes can be suppressed. The renting of a new stadium will give the right to use it not just for football but also for money making activities totally unrelated to football.

[howoldboy]

It is indeed true that part of being a football club is to maintain the ground. But the cost of maintaining the already badly deteriorated Brunton Park in comparison to the maintaining of the average League Two ground is absolutely enormous each year and increases by larger amounts each year. There is annually much more to be done than would be considered normal at a typical League Two ground.

Brunton Park is dying and maintaining it is a total waste of a lot of money.

Minds need to be applied to the need to leave Brunton Park at the earliest opportunity. There are possible solutions if excessive egoes can be suppressed. The renting of a new stadium will give the right to use it not just for football but also for money making activities totally unrelated to football.

You are talking to yourself again Stefan.

You are better than this.

[_Stefan_Kuntz]

I wish that the situation was otherwise and no doubt you also do and imagine that to be true. You have to be a fantasist to believe that the club's best interests are served by being at Brunton Park.

Brunton Park is in terminal decline which puts the club into the position of being in terminal decline through annual
patching up, even doing the bare minimum. The truth of the decline of the ground is there for anyone to see and needs no confirmation from any executive. Much work has to be done every year.

The club has to leave Brunton Park. Sentimentally, nobody enjoys that, but it is true. A solution of leasing somewhere else has to be found. Such leases allow the use of the ground for events other than football, which would produce enough profit to pay the lease fee for that year.

[Piglet_Phoenix]

"But the cost of maintaining the already badly deteriorated Brunton Park in comparison to the maintaining of the average League Two ground is absolutely enormous each year and increases by larger amounts each year."

Don't believe the hype.

This is just an excuse bandied around by Jenkins and his cronies to excuse their lack of ambition and furthered by Sheikh-Al-Laffyate as he wants to develop the land.